“He sings this song, he pounds the piano. He says he wrote it and that’s good enough for me.”

Van Morrison and The Chieftains

Raglan Road

“A traditional song, but in the hands of someone like Van Morrison you can see how hard it is to separate the performer from the performance. It’s like a great jazz musician bringing a new interpretation to a song you’ve heard dozens of times.”

“He had a loud guitar and a swingin’ band…you hear this (trombone) solo and you can’t believe that Al (Grey) played with Duke Ellington’s band…it’s pure gutbucket!...We don’t play a lot of instrumentals all the way through, but that one was so swingin’ we had to play the whole thing.”

“The sweet, gentle sounds of Mississippi John Hurt. You can hear elements of the songster tradition, the music that came before the blues, carrying elements of minstrel songs and other native American forms.”

Bob Marley and the Wailers

Sugar Sugar

“In a crypt near his birthplace, buried along with him, were his Gibson Les Paul guitar, a ring he wore every day that was given to him by Prince Asfaw Wossen of Ethiopia, a marijuana bud, a soccer ball, and a bible. His needs were simple.”

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